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August 2013 Lab Meeting 23 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
We held another of our semi-regular online lab meetings yesterday, complete with a theme song. We ran the meeting twice to accommodate different time zones; those present were: 11:00 am 7:00 pm Gre...
Two Cheers for GitHub 23 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
There's been a micro-flurry of excitement in the scientific world about GitHub's recent announcement that they will now render tabular text files (i.e., CSV and TSV) on their site. Coming on the heels...
Instructor Training Statistics 23 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
We started running an online training course for Software Carpentry instructors last fall. It's been going pretty well: 72 people signed up for the four rounds we ran between September 2012 and March...
What Makes Good Code Good at INTECOL13 23 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
On 21st August, I attended INTECOL13 in London's Docklands. The 11th International Congress of Ecology, hosted by the British Ecological Society and INTECOL, is one of the world's premier conference f...
Video Interviews from SESYNC Workshop 22 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
The folks at SESYNC interviewed Titus Brown, Kaitlin Thaney, and Greg Wilson while they were in town for a workshop a few weeks ago, and the video is now up on their web site. It's a nice, short summa...
Creating Assessments and What to do With the Data 20 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
Our new assessment questionnaires are up for your review, so I thought I'd talk a little bit about the work behind the scenes, and some lessons learned. Over the past couple months I've had the opport...
Bootcamp Questionnaires 19 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
Thanks to some hard work by Jory Schossau and others, we have developed three standard questionnaires for bootcamp participants: Pre-assessment for Learners Post-assessment for Learners Post-assess...
August 2013 Lab Meeting 19 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
We will have an online lab meeting on Thursday, August 22, 2013 to discuss changes to the website, plans for the coming few months, and common questions that really ought to be answered in the FAQ or ...
Our New Operations Guide 18 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
Amy Brown, our indefatigable administrator, has put together some checklists for people involved in organizing and running bootcamps: Hosts Admins Lead instructors Other instructors Helpers We w...
Summary of Host Survey 14 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
Earlier this summer, we asked people who had hosted Software Carpentry bootcamps to give us some retrospective feedback. Their answers are summarized below, and we'll be adjusting our operations in re...
